Products such as Cognos Business Intelligence and Business Objects Business Intelligence include the following modules:
Reporting
View exactly the information you want - everything from ad-hoc queries to detailed operational reports.
Get one single version of the truth from multiple data sources, giving you the information you need, when you need it and in the format you want it - email, Microsoft Excel, HTML, PDF, CSV, or XML.
Analysis
Explore and analyse large volumes of data using OLAP or relational sources to analyse business performance across multiple dimensions (such as time, product, customer and supplier).
Scorecarding
Scorecards provide an at-a-glance view of performance against targets and ensure accountability by linking metrics to owners.
Use this information to drive your enterprise planning for a full corporate performance management system.
Dashboards
Dashboards deliver information from different sources in a single visual report to provide an at-a-glance snapshot of business performance.
Drill-down from the dashboard elements to the underlying data provides more detailed reporting and analysis.
Business Event Management
Automate the detection, management and alerting of important business events to ensure swift response and resolution of operational issues.
Data Integration
Extract all the relevant data from multiple sources to deliver a data warehouse ready for analysis and reporting.
Used in combination, these Business Intelligence, analytics and enterprise planning systems will provide you with a complete Corporate Performance Management system, providing you with the analyses, reporting and planning needed to understand and run your organisation more efficiently.


We can now demonstrate to customers the effect of various different scenarios much more quickly than before, in minutes rather than hours. This gives them the information they need to make vital decisions in the fast moving retail sector. Keith Mattocks, Project Leader at L'Oréal
